hi, i changed the algorithm of pdftotext a bit but it is far from what i would like it to be. nevertheless, i can provide you with source code of you tool using our pdfedit library extract text function but you would have to compile it by your own. will it help?
/jozo ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:52:46 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pdfedit-support] Save file as text from the command line > > On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Alister Hood wrote: > >> Sorry if someone else replied and I missed it. >> I don't know how to do this with pdfedit, but you could alternatively >> try the pdftotext tool from xpdf, or pdftohtml if that is more suitable >> for your purpose. >> >> Alister > > I am currently using pdftotext in my script. However, it doesn't work > well. That means, it drops a lot of spaces between words which makes the > output almost unuseable. This may be a problem with the PDF-input, but > I have no influence on this. For this reason I tried to use pdfedit and > found, that it's much better: the output is perfect. > >>From the man page I can see that there is a command line mode. I found the > script savealltext.qs on the wiki. But I can't figure out how to use this > from the command line. I still guess it must be easy, but I have no > success so far. Unfortunately I could not find any examples of how to use > pdfedit in command line mode. > > Thomas > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Thomas Spahni [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:21 a.m. >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Pdfedit-support] Save file as text from the command line >> >> Hello >> >> I'm a new subscriber on this list; greetings to everyone. >> >> I have a bash script which at some point should translate a PDF file to >> plain text. Let's say we have foobar.pdf and want to convert it to >> foobar.txt. I can do this from the GUI but I'm unable to figure out what >> >> the command should be to do the same from the command line. >> >> Yes, I read the docs, manpage, wiki, archives, but still no luck. Yor >> help >> would be very much appreciated. >> >> Details: PDFedit 0.4.2 from the SuSE-11.1 packman repo. >> >> Best ragards, >> Tom >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 >> 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and >> focus on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Pdfedit-support mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Pdfedit-support mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Pdfedit-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Pdfedit-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
